Military Diver Quotes & Sayings

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick. — RuPaul

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young. — Paul Auster

If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad. — Pankaj Mishra

When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it ... Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone. — Herbert Marcuse

Practice until it becomes boring, then practice until it becomes beautiful. — Harry Blackstone Jr.

I'm beautifully strong and tragically confused. — Lucy Hale

They were beautiful books, sometimes very thick, sometimes very thin, always typographically exhilarating, with their welter of title pages, subheads, epigraphs, emphatic italics, italicized catchwords taken from German philosophy and too subtle for translation, translator's prefaces and footnotes, and Kierkegaard's own endless footnotes, blanketing pages at a time as, crippled, agonized by distinctions, he scribbled on and on, heaping irony on irony, curse on curse, gnashing, sneering, praising Jehovah in the privacy of his empty home in Copenhagen. — John Updike

In some deep, dark way we all become salacious around a disaster; our mouths water slightly when there's a real emergency. Hurricanes, typhoons, wars, shootings, epidemics; we're a little aroused because now we really have something to think about rather than our monotonous lives; something to take the focus away from our to-do list. — Ruby Wax

All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour. — Ellen DeGeneres

Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Faith and optimism are contagious. — Thom S. Rainer

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski

Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. — Lindsay Eagar